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participation equips individuals to take part in the democratic processes in order to
respond to the imperative need for sustainability. It includes the socio-political participation in relevance with the structural causes of unsustainability and the actions
needed to achieve sustainability.
Civic participation can operate at any level of community and in any community
organisation and context (including schools). Three sub-domains of civic participation can be identified: Decision-making, Influencing, and Community participation
(Schulz et al. 2016). The critical praxis of Environmental Citizenship implies elements of critical pedagogy (e.g., Freire 1987) and a capacity to critically examine
and assess the complexities, patterns and politics that promulgate local and global
environmental problems.
15.2.10 Inter- and Intra-Generational Justice
It is vitally important to see that Environmental Citizenship is a matter of justice,
not of charity (Dobson 2007). It includes as important both inter-generational justice and intra-generational justice. Inter-generational justice elaborates the justice
between different generations, focusing on the necessity to take into account the
needs of the future generations. Intra-generational justice explains the issues of justice and injustice within one generation (mainly refers to current generations).
Inter-generational justice is fundamental for sustainability. Future generations
have the right to fulfil their demands and requirements. A key sustainability question is “what kind of world do we want to hand on to future generations?” The
environmental rights and duties of the Environmental Citizen extend from one generation to another.
In the EEC Model, intra-generational justice includes as an important element of
social justice within the boundaries of the state. In addition, intra-generational justice goes beyond the territorial boundaries of the state and sees justice and injustice
on a global scale. It incorporates the global south, including indigenous populations, in the debate of the fairness of the distribution of environmental goods, and
the participation and the co-creation of sustainability policy, among others.
An example of a campaign examining cases of injustice is the “Sea of hands
campaign for recollination” from Australia, in which students gain skills to listen
empathically with compassion. This campaign aimed to foster greater understanding of shared public citizenship responsibility for past cases of injustice of war,
colonisation, domination and genocide (Hayward 2012).
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participation equips individuals to take part in the democratic processes in order to
respond to the imperative need for sustainability. It includes the socio-political participation in relevance with the structural causes of unsustainability and the actions
needed to achieve sustainability.
Civic participation can operate at any level of community and in any community
organisation and context (including schools). Three sub-domains of civic participation can be identified: Decision-making, Influencing, and Community participation
(Schulz et al. 2016). The critical praxis of Environmental Citizenship implies elements of critical pedagogy (e.g., Freire 1987) and a capacity to critically examine
and assess the complexities, patterns and politics that promulgate local and global
environmental problems.
15.2.10 Inter- and Intra-Generational Justice
It is vitally important to see that Environmental Citizenship is a matter of justice,
not of charity (Dobson 2007). It includes as important both inter-generational justice and intra-generational justice. Inter-generational justice elaborates the justice
between different generations, focusing on the necessity to take into account the
needs of the future generations. Intra-generational justice explains the issues of justice and injustice within one generation (mainly refers to current generations).
Inter-generational justice is fundamental for sustainability. Future generations
have the right to fulfil their demands and requirements. A key sustainability question is “what kind of world do we want to hand on to future generations?” The
environmental rights and duties of the Environmental Citizen extend from one generation to another.
In the EEC Model, intra-generational justice includes as an important element of
social justice within the boundaries of the state. In addition, intra-generational justice goes beyond the territorial boundaries of the state and sees justice and injustice
on a global scale. It incorporates the global south, including indigenous populations, in the debate of the fairness of the distribution of environmental goods, and
the participation and the co-creation of sustainability policy, among others.
An example of a campaign examining cases of injustice is the “Sea of hands
campaign for recollination” from Australia, in which students gain skills to listen
empathically with compassion. This campaign aimed to foster greater understanding of shared public citizenship responsibility for past cases of injustice of war,
colonisation, domination and genocide (Hayward 2012).
A. Ch. Hadjichambis and D. Paraskeva-Hadjichambi